[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-07, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>The whole command-line concept on VMS is fundamentally flawed. Notice that 
>>on *nix, the command line is not a single string, it is an array of 
>>strings. This makes it easy to pass special characters that might mean 
>>something to the shell, simply by bypassing the shell.
>
> Having made the Unix-to-VMS transition in the late eighties, the two things
> I really liked about DCL were the handling of wildcards and the ability to
> use [....] for recursive file paths.  I would love to have those two things
> in bash.
>

Things I would like to see from bash in DCL:

Filename globbing.

Tab completion of files/directories with list of matches at each stage.

Ability to edit lines longer than the terminal width.

Easy incremental recall of commands (Ctrl-R in bash).

Synchronised permanent storage of command history across sessions. Supports
using multiple sessions at the same time and only writes the changes from
that session to the history file.

Things I would like to see in bash on Linux:

Ctrl-T

Simon.

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